what the hell? Someone says that they work too much and read too much as a lawyer and so when reading for pleasure they prefer things that are easily digested and most of all short, and your response is to say that their law degree and work is a terrible life choice? Is ANYTHING in the world valuable besides finely…

Ah you're right. There's just so much rape i cannot believe they left a story line like Pia's out. But really glad they did. I honestly couldn't watch that.

"Tacitly trying to force the GoT showrunners"?? Damn, son, the kids' table is thataway.

I'm a big fan too. Huge, really. But my interest for the tv show has been dropping precipitously since the sept scene. It was such a representation of how HBO was mishandling the source material. I'm still watching the show, but barely. Back to rereading the books for me.

For myself, I like it because of the complex questions of power, morality, and character. I like it because the world is gritty, and messy, and sweet, and sad, and confusing - just like our own. (Well, plus dragons.) The characters in this series are more complicated than anything else I've ever read. There is no…

This is such an important point. I've talked to a number of people who haven't seen the show yet who are turned off by the reputation for gratuitous sex and violence that t has, and won't try the books either for that exact reason. It's really sad to me that this growing theme of pushing the boundaries through rape…

I'm fine with blaming everyone but Martin. The show is starting to make the books look worse than they are, and I think it's noteworthy (and increasingly disturbing) that just about every time the show departs significantly from the books it's so they can add more heavily sexualized violence. I'm starting to get a…

HAHAHA. A show with smoke monsters being birthed and white walkers and giant wolf dogs and fucking DRAGONS is more realistic then a show about four women living in modern-day Manhattan. I want some of what you're smoking.

Since we are all clever and worldly enough to know that Craster's daughters were raped, why show it in such great detail on the show except to show these rapes as a form of titillation? This is what I also hated about the Theon torture porn scenes - we GET that he is being tortured after the first scene, why show a…

So basically, her role was simply to a) be naked and b) advance the development of the MALE characters (by fucking them and by dying thanks to them)? Um...yeah, that's not at all sexist.

I was really, really disturbed by the Craster's Keep rape, much more than the Cersei-Jaime scene. It's not about whether rape is part of the plot or not. It's about how it is depicted and framed. Including an active, brutal rape in the background over the shoulder of the speaker in the foreground for an extended…

You asked "What do you see in it?" I answered.

I have honestly not seen Oz, but my question is: was that scene meant to be sexy? Or was it straight up meant to be horrifying? One of the big points of this article isn't that rape happens in the show, but that's it's framed with the same focus on the women's bodies as the "happy sexy sex scenes" are in the show. So…

But the babies aren't made to be sexy, sexy babies in the same shot.

The point is that we can love a show for some amazing characters but still point out when it's becoming more and more overtly misogynistic in how it frames the things that happen. Half the criticisms in this piece are specifically about how the show is shot so that women's bodies are made to look sexy even during the…

I mention this in another comment, but I saw the actress this past weekend at a con and during the GoT panel she actually said that she asked if they could shoot her death scene where she was actually dying on screen but they said no. She even tried having her head slump so you could at least see the moment where Ros…

Yeah, me too. And the fact that they because they don't see it as rape, they wrote the rest of the season (as far as we can tell at this point) for Cersei to not have a reaction to it. Oh yeah, that was just a thing that happened. No lasting consequences for the victim, right?

It looks like the show is pretending it didn't happen either.

Yes, but think of the emphasis. If you want to express the brutality of wartime rape, why not examine the phenomenon of a man who bases his war decisions on chivalry, but feels free to rape and brutalize local populations? Isn't it more interesting to see his face when he rapes someone, rather than the breasts of the…

Speaking of Ros, I saw Esmé Bianco at a panel this weekend and someone asked her if she was able to keep anything from set when she left the show. She said they let her keep the kimono from her scene by the water. She said it was really one of the only pieces of clothing she got to wear in the whole show. And the…